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CWRT, May 2014 "If at first you don't succeed..." The Failed Vicksburg Campaigns Presentation Outline • Setting the strategic scene • Farragut's 1862 attempt and Williams' Canal • Grant's Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign • Chickasaw Bayou Campaign • Lake Providence Canal • Yazoo Pass Expedition • Steele's Bayou Expedition OH 320k; IL 250k; IN 210k; MO 110k; IA 76k; WI 91k, plus KY, MN, and parts of PA and TN Upstream • Forts Henry and Donelson (February, 1862) fall and Union forces are not dislodged at Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) • Memphis is out-flanked and surrendered (June 6, 1862) • Corinth victory (October 3-4, Vicksburg X 1862) secured much of the previously vulnerable Union- held territory • Forts Jackson and St. Philip Downstream are bombarded April 18-24, 1862. By-passed by Farragut's Union fleet April 24 and abandoned by April 28. • New Orleans surrendered April 25 after BG Mansfield Lovell evacuated it on 24th. • Baton Rouge falls May 12, 1862 • Port Hudson still in Vicksburg Confederate hands X • 200+ foot bluffs on the eastern bank of the Mississippi • Shallow lakes, meandering streams, dense swamps and sluggish rivers, covered with trees and brush, to the north. All prone to flooding by the River. • South and west was "The Deep South” • Northernmost trans-Mississippi railroad hub south of Memphis • Sole trans-Mississippi link for supplies by rail once Memphis fell • “Choke point” along the Mississippi River on shipment down to New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and on to Europe • 200+ foot bluffs on the eastern bank of the Mississippi • Shallow lakes, meandering streams, dense swamps and sluggish rivers, covered with trees and brush, to the north. All prone to flooding by the River. • South and west was "The Deep South" Dramatis personae Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Mississippi Central campaign Nov 3-Jan 10 Chickasaw Bayou expedition Dec 20-Jan 3 Grant's Canal Jan 24-"late Mar" Lake Providence Early Feb-end Mar Yazoo Pass Expedition Feb 24-Apr 8 Steele's Bayou Expedition Mar 14-27 Duckport Canal Mar 31- May 4 Arkansas Post • Concentrating at LaGrange, TN, Grant advanced 40,000 down Mississippi Central RR to the Tallahatchie River • Once secured, supply line was shortened by moving depot from LaGrange to Holly Springs, MS • Tallahatchie line outflanked by move (under BG Alvin Hovey) from Helena, AR downriver and then inland • Confederates 24,000 move to Yalobusha River • Sherman's XV Corps ordered back to Memphis to fulfill Halleck's MG Frederick Steele orders to move down Mississippi BG Nathan Bedford Forrest MG Earl Van Dorn • Grant retired from Mississippi interior Supply depot burned ($450k to $1.5 MM) 100+ miles of rail torn up; bridges and trestles destroyed Rolling stock destroyed or "stranded" Halleck's ordered River operations Confederates redeploy... Chickasaw Bayou MG W.T. Sherman - XV Corps MGMG CarterMartin L.Smith Stevenson-2nd - 2nd Mil. Dist. MD Chickasaw Bayou Abandoned • Fog prevented a renewed assault on 30 December • Grant retreated and no longer threatened from the East • Sounds indicative of rail-borne Confederate reinforcements were audible • Frontal assaults on Walnut Hills defenses would be costly • High water marks were visible 10 to 12 feet above ground level! • Sherman embarked his troops and returned to Milliken Bend • Grant's Canal • Lake Providence • Yazoo Pass • Steele's Bayou Levee break Lake Providence MG James B. McPherson - XVII Corps Yazoo Pass BG Isaac Quinby MG William Wing Loring Yazoo Pass Steele's Bayou MG W.T. Sherman - XV Corps BG Winfield S. Featherstone Duckport Canal Another failed attempt to divert the River. Used as an alternate supply route for east bank approach Final Thoughts • McClernand's independent command and political connections were problems, distracting Union efforts to take Vicksburg (Arkansas Post "wild goose chase") • Grant learned how useful cavalry raids were in diverting enemy attention • On his retreat from Oxford Grant realized how easy it would be for his Army to "live off the land" • Much of the country (and Army) thought Grant a failure. But he was persistent! • No reliable tabulation located for most activities • Chickasaw Bayou: Union: 213 - 1,016 - 561 Confederates: 58 - 116 - 10 • Steele's Bayou Union: 3 - 7 - 0 Confederates: 2 - 7 - 0 Clearly significantly understated!!! 83rd Ohio turned out 80 men for a dress parade at Young's Point. Five months earlier they were 1,010 strong. http://www.civilwaralbum.com/vicksburg/ http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/ civil_war_series/24/sec2.htm http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/grantshilohvicksburg/.
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